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2009-04-08 India-Pakistan

Sikh journalist hurls shoe at Indian home minister

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 It may be old but it has had en effect like none previously.

Trains in the Punjab are stopped as people sit on the tracks. There is genuine anger and the Congress looks set to lose parliamentary seats. They are looking at dumping Tytler from their ticket.

They've been making hay for years about the Hindu nationalists and Gujarat, but silent about their own pogrom, with its far greater death toll. Now it has come back to bite them.

Posted by john frum 2009-04-08 07:16|| 2009-04-08 07:16|| Front Page Top

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